# Book author: 1960s book 'It Is Easier to Succeed Than to Fail'

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**Created:** [March 6, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-author-1960s-book-it-is-easier-to-succeed-than-to-fail/781559 "2017-03-06T17:59:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-author-1960s-book-it-is-easier-to-succeed-than-to-fail/781559/1 "2017-03-06T17:59:04Z")

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Not Truett Cathy or Ivan Kos. This would have been published probably in the last 1960s, no later than 1970. Some sort of. . . self-help book?

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-author-1960s-book-it-is-easier-to-succeed-than-to-fail/781559/2 "2020-09-10T13:23:34Z")

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Well, I would like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who responded to my question.

And now that that’s done, the author was Ralph W. O’Farrell, published in 1968.

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-author-1960s-book-it-is-easier-to-succeed-than-to-fail/781559/3 "2020-09-10T17:07:38Z")

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Sorry I didn’t see it back then. I put the title into [bookfinder.com](http://bookfinder.com) and out popped those three names and also James F. Cullinan. I heartily recommend bookfinder as a meta-search site for books.